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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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